Stack Insights

What 63,386 indie launches actually shipped.

63,386

launches analysed

66%

no AI stance on robots.txt

44%

skip ToS or privacy policy

20-39

median Vibe Score band

Vibe Score Distribution

How AI-built do these launches look? Higher = more AI fingerprints.

0-19

25,641 41%

20-39

20,730 33%

40-59

7,830 12%

60-79

2,582 4%

80-100

6,445 10%

Product Hunt avg 32 (52,940 sites)

Hacker News avg 20 (4,678 sites)

5,458 sites

score 70+ for AI-built but also 80+ for launch readiness.

Polished vibecode.

31 providers

on one site, all configured for email. 100 sites use 5 or more.

Commitment issues?

5,782 sites

ship a sitemap with fewer than 3 URLs.

Why bother?

AI Posture

How sites position themselves on AI crawlers, and which crawlers they block most.

Stance breakdown

No stance 66%

Open (has llms.txt) 22%

Blocking AI bots 9%

Confused (blocks but has llms.txt) 3%

Most blocked crawlers

across 47,913 sites with a robots.txt

CCBot 16%

Bytespider 16%

GPTBot 16%

Google-Extended 15%

ClaudeBot 15%

Amazonbot 15%

Applebot-Extended 15%

meta-externalagent 15%

Site Hygiene

Legal pages, sitemaps, and the basics of being a real site.

Legal compliance

66% have a privacy policy

58% have terms of service

56% have both

343 shipped unfilled placeholders

Policy generators detected:

Termly (270) Iubenda (110) Notion (105) TermsFeed (92) FreePrivacyPolicy.com (20) PrivacyPolicies.com (15) GetTerms (14)

Web standards

69% publish a sitemap

29% use Google Search Console

20% publish an app manifest

19% are installable as a PWA

Avg sitemap: 232 URLs (median 13, max 108,799).

Techs That Ship Together

Most common technology pairings across launches.

HSTS	↔	Tailwind CSS	23,860 launches
Google Search Console	↔	HSTS	23,214 launches
Google Search Console	↔	Tailwind CSS	22,349 launches
Next.js	↔	React	21,696 launches
HSTS	↔	Vercel	20,475 launches
Google Analytics	↔	Google Search Console	19,125 launches
React	↔	Tailwind CSS	18,566 launches
Cloudflare	↔	HTTP/3	18,354 launches
Next.js	↔	Tailwind CSS	18,067 launches
HSTS	↔	React	17,366 launches

More curiosities

6,310 sites have a privacy policy but no terms of service. Half the legal job done.
1,117 sites have terms of service but no privacy policy. Backwards priorities.